[Brog] Takara Lovin'

akum6n Wrote:
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> I love the little car robot that came with Powered
> Convoy... too bad that didn't make it into the TF
> version.
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> Color me envious on all counts!

The little car is called Powered Buggy in Japan or Super Buggy in Italy. Roller, the little non-transforming car that comes with the original Optimus was called Buggy in Japan. So Diaclone Battle Convoy came with Buggy, and his upgrade Powered Convoy came with Powered Buggy! Powered Buggy is kind of cheap (you have to pull his arms and legs off to transform him) but still cute. I wish they had made a blue Powered Buggy for Ultra Magnus!

That is an incredible photo. I wish E-Hobby had done a reissue Powered Convoy set with the Powered Buggy and everything. Road Rage and Crosscut (the Skids/ Honda Turbo) E-Hobby set came with the little scooters, but no drivers.

The vintage Ultra Magnus is a nice toy and everything, it's just not AS nice as Powered Convoy. Powered Buggy is a fun little extra, Powered Convoy has firing missile launchers, and I like the colors a lot better. I guess the pointier antennas aren't really that big of a deal, but I think they look nicer. Mostly it's about the colors, to me.

I wasn't aware of a TF branded version of the Browning pistol. Was that a Japanese version TF?
-Mason

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Matthewalt &quot;I actually kinda LIKE that approach! You know: let's make a TOY. Remember those? Products designed to be played with without breaking? DO YOU REMEMBER, LOVE?!&quot;

Mason, I thought I told you about it once before... Browning was released in the Masterforce line in '89, I think. It has the blue Microman colors, as opposed to the red Diaclone bits. It also had some new TF-ey stickers. In the cartoon, he was actually lifesize, so when he transformed he was only 6" tall... kinda fun.

One seller asshole on ebay who has previously used my pics to try to sucker some buyers and was following my posts at several places for a while and one Transformers dork who keeps stealing my pictures and putting them on his Transformers variations page without credit. That guy even had the gall to quote entire posts of mine while removing who said it making it look like he was the one who wrote it.

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Matthewalt &quot;I actually kinda LIKE that approach! You know: let's make a TOY. Remember those? Products designed to be played with without breaking? DO YOU REMEMBER, LOVE?!&quot;

That's actually a weird Argentine bootleg that came with a horrible Argentine bootleg of Battle Buffalo. Hmm, looks like the front plate thing popped off. I better put it back on. I ended up ditching the bootleg Battle Buffalo but kept the Powered Suit.

Better quality application. The microman one has a thin and sometimes rough chrome, and the transformer browning is thicker and shinier like the reissue megatron. Not a huge deal but there is a difference.

Kicks Hobby in Seattle, circa 2003. Also managed to score a black p38 gun Robo that trip, then a battle buffalo and waruderos on another trip a year or so later. they were from the owners collection. Nice guy and he let them go for good prices.

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Matthewalt &quot;I actually kinda LIKE that approach! You know: let's make a TOY. Remember those? Products designed to be played with without breaking? DO YOU REMEMBER, LOVE?!&quot;

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Matthewalt &quot;I actually kinda LIKE that approach! You know: let's make a TOY. Remember those? Products designed to be played with without breaking? DO YOU REMEMBER, LOVE?!&quot;

Kitty is adorable. But Death King is full of WIN! The chest cannon just catapults it to beyond cool. And the Real Type 7-2-1 is sick as well! Very nice scores Mason. So glad I have not ventured into the whole YahooJapan thing yet, I'd have no money left and about 1/100th of the toys I have now lol.

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Matthewalt &quot;I actually kinda LIKE that approach! You know: let's make a TOY. Remember those? Products designed to be played with without breaking? DO YOU REMEMBER, LOVE?!&quot;